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Busy Being Black

Busy Being Black

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 Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers is the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives.2025 Josh Rivers Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Mojisola Adebayo – Black Duende

    Mojisola Adebayo – Black Duende
    Jun 25 2025
    Busy Being Black returns soon with a season exploring Black imaginative vigour—and who better than Mojisola Adebayo to remind us of the adventure and irreverence of Black artistry, during and beyond times of crisis? In this conversation, which originally aired in February 2023, Mojisola takes us on a journey from Goldsmiths University to Antarctica, to space and back again, to explore how we utilise performance to challenge the sanctity of whiteness, what an orgasm-seeking space odyssey tells us about the world-changing potential of queer Black pleasure, and how the reanimation of the life and story of Henrietta Lacks prompts us to consider our own genealogical and cosmic immortality. ✨ STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey at Brixton House ✨ Sign up for Field Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 mins
  • Kuchenga Shenjé – A Life Worth Writing About

    Kuchenga Shenjé – A Life Worth Writing About
    Dec 31 2024
    You’ll no doubt have heard of and read Kuchenga Shenjé's debut novel, The Library Thief, which brings together her passions for history, mystery and rebels; and you’re likely to have felt the warmth and humour of her writing in publications like British Vogue and Stylist. In our conversation, we explore how she came to the transformative decision to pursue sobriety, her hodgepodge approach to her spirituality and spiritual practice, how the deferred dreams of her mother and grandmother have shaped how she enjoys her life and what she’s learned from the characters in her novel and daring women across history about what it means to live a life worth writing about. You can find out more about Kuchenga here. Thank you to myGwork for their ongoing support of Busy Being Black. If you're not yet a member of the world's largest global talent and networking platform for LGBTQ+ professionals, now is a great time to join. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • Legacy Russell – Black Meme

    Legacy Russell – Black Meme
    Dec 10 2024
    I’ve been invigorated by Legacy Russell’s ongoing inquiries into how we come alive together. Whether she’s encouraging us to think expansively about the connection between marine life and Black agency under duress, or pointing us towards the liberatory possibilities at the intersection of our bodies, genders and technologies, her work is evidence of her desire and drive to live in a world in which Black folks thrive. We explore how an investigation into visual culture helps us appreciate and reckon with the role Black people have played in shaping the modern world, our responsibility as global and digital citizens to harness the internet to collectively push forward what our shared future looks like, and what we learn from what it means to really live—or to not live—from the ancestors who refused to survive the Middle Passage. Legacy's first book, Glitch Feminism, explores how we find liberation in the glitch between body, gender and technology; her second book, Black Meme, shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world. Both are available from Verso Books. Thank you to myGwork for their ongoing support of Busy Being Black. If you're not yet a member of the world's largest global talent and networking platform for LGBTQ+ professionals, now is a great time to join. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 mins
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